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Almost 15 million teens around the world using vapes, WHO report says
More than 100 million people around the world are using e-cigarettes, according to "alarming" estimates from the World Health Organisation, with almost 15 million teenagers believed to vape.
In its report - the health body's first ever tracking of the use of vapes and other electronic smoking devices - the WHO said that figure includes at least 86 million adults, mostly from high-income countries. But the report said 14.7 million of the total believed to use e-cigarettes were reportedly children aged between 13 and 15 years old.
It added that vaping's prevalence among teens globally was 7.2%. In contrast, while around 20.4 million adolescents reported smoking cigarettes, it had a prevalence of 5.1%.
The report's authors added that, based on available data for 63 countries - including in the UK - rates of vaping for 13- to 15-year-olds are "on average nine times higher than the prevalence among adults.
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